Killshot Caine
The Unstoppable Ledgernaut
You Just Mad Cuz i'm Stylin On you!
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Post by Killshot Caine on Dec 13, 2010 13:19:25 GMT -5
I finished it oday. Pak made the best of it, really. I also reread # 611, the showdown between Hulk and Skaar. Strong issue. What do you think of Bannertech? Good addition to Bruce's character?
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Post by Morpheus on Dec 13, 2010 13:48:35 GMT -5
I finished it oday. Pak made the best of it, really. I also reread # 611, the showdown between Hulk and Skaar. Strong issue. What do you think of Bannertech? Good addition to Bruce's character? Yes. I enjoyed that he had to show his intellect in multiple areas to counteract for the fact he was powerless. But I would have preferred if he had some problems from time to time. The transition from radiation specialist to gadget master was far too smooth.
Also, can I express my disdain for the Leader being supposedly the most intelligent man on the planet (from the infamous "top 8")? Seriously.
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Post by Tesseract on Dec 13, 2010 15:17:33 GMT -5
What do you think of Bannertech? Good addition to Bruce's character? Yes. I enjoyed that he had to show his intellect in multiple areas to counteract for the fact he was powerless. But I would have preferred if he had some problems from time to time. The transition from radiation specialist to gadget master was far too smooth.
Also, can I express my disdain for the Leader being supposedly the most intelligent man on the planet (from the infamous "top 8")? Seriously.It's probably because they wanted someone to be the complete opposite of the Hulk for the series. He's the strongest one there is, and they upgraded the Leader into the smartest one there is.
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Killshot Caine
The Unstoppable Ledgernaut
You Just Mad Cuz i'm Stylin On you!
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Post by Killshot Caine on Dec 13, 2010 16:59:04 GMT -5
I was mad about how powerful Modok was in Fall of the Hulks and then I saw his OHOTMU entry.He's almost all maxed out.
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Post by Morpheus on Dec 13, 2010 17:17:10 GMT -5
Yes. I enjoyed that he had to show his intellect in multiple areas to counteract for the fact he was powerless. But I would have preferred if he had some problems from time to time. The transition from radiation specialist to gadget master was far too smooth.
Also, can I express my disdain for the Leader being supposedly the most intelligent man on the planet (from the infamous "top 8")? Seriously. It's probably because they wanted someone to be the complete opposite of the Hulk for the series. He's the strongest one there is, and they upgraded the Leader into the smartest one there is. I really like the character, but feat-wise, he is not above anyone from the 8. He did not do anything to warrant an upgrade either.Absurdly so. He is a 6 in energy projection.
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Post by jakefury on Jan 27, 2011 21:40:28 GMT -5
Hulk vs the Olympic Gods...1st issue was pretty good...
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Post by NexusOfLight on May 8, 2011 18:42:12 GMT -5
I have now officially caught up on everything Hulk related for the most part. Still a few issues I'm lacking from various series, but still. All I really gotta say is dang. Being Hulk sucks so bad. Being friends with Hulk sucks even worse. Being enemies of Hulk, while not as bad as being friends, sucks very bad as well.
I'm enjoying what's going on with Ross too. He's got his own Cap'n Ahab, those LMD's are weird, and it was really funny seeing Thor "not hearing" Steve tell him how he's reformed.
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Post by jakefury on Jun 11, 2011 17:51:21 GMT -5
Just picked up the Red Hulk/Red King story...
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Post by NexusOfLight on Jul 22, 2011 20:40:50 GMT -5
Man, I love what Jeff is doin' with this new M.O.D.O.K.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 6, 2011 23:09:33 GMT -5
Man, I love what Jeff is doin' with this new M.O.D.O.K. The 2nd Fear Itself issue actually made me a MODOK fan. Parker has created a group of rogues for Thunderbolt that are really diverse.
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Post by NexusOfLight on Aug 11, 2011 17:55:34 GMT -5
Man, that last issue of Incredible Hulks... man, Hulk is smashin'. Mang, like you never woulda believed it. Mang, this mess is too intense. Mang, it's been goin' down hard, an' it's about ta all end in a blaze of fury.
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Post by ckal on Aug 11, 2011 22:45:27 GMT -5
Yeah, and who would've guessed that the supposedly brilliant genius Amadeus Cho died because he acted like a retard.
Paul Pelletier draws a great Hulk btw.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 25, 2011 19:08:13 GMT -5
Jeff Parker was born to write Rulk.
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Post by ckal on Aug 31, 2011 21:05:40 GMT -5
Haven't read Parker's Rulk, but I hear great things about it.
Anyone read The Incredible Hulks #635 today? The finale of Greg Pak's 5 year run.
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Post by ckal on Sept 1, 2011 11:10:38 GMT -5
I'm confused about the ending.
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Post by NexusOfLight on Sept 2, 2011 12:35:05 GMT -5
Ha, that ending was great. It finally answered that lingering question that Pak was asking all throughout his five year run of who the monster really is. And those panels in the restaurant of all those other people Bruce was laughing at just flowed so perfectly with everything that Bruce's been through. I could literally write an literary analysis of the whole run. It was that good. The end summed up things so well.
What are you confused about?
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Post by ckal on Sept 3, 2011 22:47:31 GMT -5
I thought with Aaron/silvestri's run banner and hulk are supposed to be separate entities?
I guess that's where my confusion is coming from. It seems that aside from that, pak is saying that banner and the hulk are one, they are both the monster and they like it.
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Post by NexusOfLight on Sept 4, 2011 0:12:13 GMT -5
Well, all throughout Pak's run, he's been asking that question. That was his question. And he's been trying to answer it, but nothing ever seemed to fit. It all depended on who was doing the asking and who was doing the answering. So Pak decided to explore that by having stories focus on both of them individually. Planet Hulk showed us Hulk by himself, that run in with the Intelligencia showed us Banner by himself. Who's the real monster? Are they really separate? Junk like that.
So come the end, he decided to say that it's both. Hulk and Banner are the same, and they've always been the same. Sure, one may act a little differently than the other, but that's exactly how it is with everybody else in the world. That's why Banner was looking at everyone in the coffee shop and smiling, and that's the main reason Cho was trying to tell Banner that he should stick with the hero thing. The story behind Hulk and Banner isn't as simple as "there's a monster inside of me trying to get out." It's much deeper than that. It's the story of a person being a person at the end of the day having to accept the consequences of his actions and use whatever power he's given to always do the right thing. Always be the hero. That's the main thing Pak wanted to get across. That was always the driving theme behind his run, the thesis of his story.
As for what Aaron's doing come October, that'll be his thing, he's a different writer. I don't know what his thesis'll be aside from the glimpses of the promos. He could write Hulk a different number of ways. He could completely ignore what Pak's done, or he could build on it. I'm not sure, but either way, Pak's idea behind Hulk is that he's not some separate entity from Banner. I personally would love it for Aaron to keep that same theme while also running with his own. The different personalities of Hulk was touched on heavily during Jenkins run, and if Aaron finds a way to fuse the two of those runs together, then I personally think that'd be great. If I were writing Hulk, that'd probably be the way I'd do it.
But as for now, all we can do is wait an' see.
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Post by ckal on Sept 4, 2011 12:00:23 GMT -5
That's very interesting. I thought it was a good ending as well now that that is cleared up.
It seems like from the promos that Aaron is going to be ignoring what Pak did. I remember the description saying something like, "Now that Banner and Hulk are no longer/are separate entities..."
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Post by NexusOfLight on Sept 4, 2011 13:56:14 GMT -5
That's one of the great things about characters like Hulk. His entire premise is simple enough to be open to different interpretations. Writers and fans alike can take what they want from the stories and still be right. I look forward to seeing what Aaron has in store. As long as it's hot, fresh, an' smooth, I'll be hooked.
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